Presidential Executive Order 9066 

Executive Order 9066 Public Notice
"Whereas the successful prosecution of the war requires every possible protection against espionage and against sabotage to national-defense premises, and national-defense utilities as defined in Section 4, Act of April 20, 1918, 40 Stat. 533, as amended by the Act of November 30, 1940, 54 Stat. 1220, and the Act of August 21, 1941, 55 Stat. 655 (U.S.C, Title 50, Sec. 104):
Now, therefore, by the virtue of the authority vested in me as the President of the United States, and Commander in Chief of the Army and the Navy, I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of War, and the military Commanders whom he may from time to time designate, whenever he or any designated Commander deems such action necessary of desirable, to prescribe military areas in such places and of each of such extent as he or the appropriate Military Commander may determine, from which any or all persons may be excluded, and with respect to which, the right of any person to enter, remain in, or leave shall be subject to whatever restrictions the Secretary of War or appropriate Military Commander."
"Instructions to all persons of Japanese Ancestry living in the following area:
All that portion of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, lying generally west of the north-south line established by Junipero Serra Boulevard, Worchester Avenue, and Nineteenth Avenue, and lying generally north of the east-west line established by California Street, to the intersection of Market Street, and thense on Market Street to San Francisco Bay. All Japanese persons, both alien and non-alien, will be evacuated from the above designated area by 12:00 o'clock noon, Tuesday, April 7, 1942. No Japanese person will be permitted to enter of leave the described area after 8:00 a.m., Thursday, April 2, 1942, without obtaining special permission fro the Provost Marshal at the Civil Control Station located at:
1701 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, California
The Civil Control Station is required to assist the Japanese population affected by this evacuation in the following ways:
1. Give advice and instruction on the evacuation
2. Provide services with respect to the management, leasing, sale, store or other disposition of most kinds of property including: real estate, business and professional equipment, buildings, household goods, boats, automobiles, livestock, etc.
3. Provide Temporary residence elsewhere for all Japanese in family groups.
4. Transport persons and a limited amount of clothing and equipment to their new residence as specified."